Warning: Do NOT try this at home. In fact, Do NOT try this EVER. I’m a bit surprised that this guy still has fingers after this “experiment” [Via [H]]

In this new RSAnimate, renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist explains how our ‘divided brain’ has profoundly altered human behaviour, culture and society. Taken from a lecture given by Iain McGilchrist as part of the RSA’s free public events programme. [RSA Animate]

In the following video, Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about how the amount of peer reviewed science research being done in America has gone down since 2000, and gone up in other places of the world. [Via Videosift]

The Professor – donning his clip-on shades – is at Bondi Beach in Australia for a discussion about sunscreen. [Periodic Videos]

A new research breakthrough has enabled scientists from the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh to grow human tissue to repair or replace organs, and someday, maybe even limbs. [Via BoingBoing]

Researchers at UC San Diego have created living “displays” using what they call “biopixels,” colonies of fluorescent bacteria which are grouped together to form the equivalent of a traditional pixel. [UC San Diego]

Six 60-second animations (combined) explaining six famous thought experiments. [The Open University]